Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c12.s2.1

v1.c12.s2.1

The commanding personality of Buddha, his self-sacrifice, the strength of his character, his spiritual attainments, his super-sensual vision, and the occasional manifestations of miraculous powers served in a great degree to convince the people of the greatness of his religion and made them attach importance to it. Prof. Keith would attribute the vast success of Buddhism not so much to the merits of the religion as to the personality of the founder. He says that “the founder of Buddhism must rank as one of the most commanding personalities ever produced by the eastern world."'